[Chapter-delegates] Article in The New York Times

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Dear Sabrina,

The article in New York times needs to be examined seriously. The
traffic overload, if it may be called so, is one of the aspects that
need to be observed and measures identified.

1. It is wonderful to find the content on the net getting richer and
richer; it feels good to experience increasing bandwidths as it has
progressed from 14.4 KBPS to 56 to the present trend of 11 MBPS or
comcast's 16 MBPS, but are we making scientific estimations of average
available bandwidth per user for at least the next 10 years
(preferably for a longer duration), average bandwidth usage per user,
traffic distribution and all other factors that determine the overload
?

2. It is good to download movies, good to upload videos, but while we
enjoy the ease of the internet, are we examining unnecessary,
redundant traffic ?

There are several other aspects that needs to be comprehensively
examined. (For example the IPV4 runout problem.)

The internet requires an overall blueprint for its growth. Otherwise
we may have some unforeseen problems.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
ISOC India Chennai.
http://www.isocindiachennai.in ( in process )


On 3/14/08, Alejandro Pisanty <apisan at servidor.unam.mx> wrote:
> Dear Sabrina, all,
>
>  in discussion last evening during the IETF Plenary, this article was
>  mentioned. The discussion was following the presentations about video and
>  TV over the Internet by two invited speakers. Probably the memory-sticking
>  points are:
>
>  1. video and TV are taking up about 50% of Internet traffic already, and
>  this fraction is growing. The rates of growth are discussed but somewhere
>  around 50-55% per year.
>
>  2. different ways to provide this video are being explored and none is
>  find satisfactory by all experts (peer-to-peer and multicasting are among
>  the examples.)
>
>  3. in the US there is a lack of sufficient investment in broadband; "lack"
>  or "insufficiency" are defined with respect to expectations for traffic
>  and services that will be required, and in comparison too a few (Northern)
>  economies in Europe and Asia.
>
>  4. lesson/message to chapters outside the North: let's look at our
>  countries' infrastructures and make sure we press for a sufficient build
>  of bandwidth at accessible prices and all the way to the users. This was
>  not said.
>
>  Yours,
>
>  Alejandro Pisanty
>
>
>  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . .  .  .  .  .  .
>       Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
>  UNAM, Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico
>
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>
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>  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .
>
>
>  On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Sabrina Wilmot wrote:
>
>  > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:01:04 +0000
>  > From: Sabrina Wilmot <wilmot at isoc.org>
>  > To: Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>
>  > Subject: [Chapter-delegates] Article in The New York Times
>
> >
>  > Dear Colleagues
>  >
>  > There is an article in today's "New York Times" with a quote from Fred
>  > Baker (board member of the Internet Society):
>  >
>  > "Video Road Hogs Stir Fear of Internet Traffic Jam"
>  > By STEVE LOHR
>  > Caution: Heavy Internet traffic ahead. Delays possible.
>  >
>  > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/technology/13net.html
>  >
>  >
>  > Enjoy!
>  >
>  > Best regards,
>  > Sabrina Wilmot
>  > ISOC
>  >
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